Handy Sandy - How to Replace Door Handles

Hullo blogger pals. Another episode of Handy-Sandy here. I am beginning to think that I this has become a home reno blog but Mama says it's just cause it's been raining so much. It's to keep me from getting bored...

Today we are replacing door handles... like on bedroom and bathroom doors. There was a sale at Rona and soooo... today is the day! Now... these door handles, to be perfectly honest, don't work the greatest. They stick quite a bit and are a nuisance. They aren't quite brass... nor copper... so let's just call them... crass! (heh-heh).

Not to mention painted... Anyhow... how to get them off... good question. There is only one hole on the back.... and not a screw in sight.

 Well... it turns out, you pop off that painted bit and it turns around so you turn it to the 12 o'clock position and undo the first screw... and then rotate it to the 6 o'clock position and undo the second one.

Can we say complicated?

There we go... Phew... those are some heavy door knobs... and a weird mechanism inside too. Must be from the Middle Ages (Ben & Jerry's Papa knows all about that era...)

So, then you have the hole in the door and the latch thingie-majig to get out...

You undo these two screws on the plate...

And then the thing just pops out.

Then you get your knew door handles... Ooohh... ahhhh... brushed nickel lever style handles ($12 Can at Rona!). They are reversible...

Which means... you can not put them on like this... which is upside down... But you pop each handle off the inner workings and exchange them...

So it looks like this! The lever handle end should always point down... Or so says YouTube...

There we go.... this was a beary easy job once we figured out the reversible bit...